D2 GUI Libs

[Nick Sabalausky]

"retard" <re at tard.com.invalid> wrote in message 
news:hg0keb$2iq2$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:53:50 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> Eldar Insafutdinov wrote:
>>> Right now we are working on a next QtD version. We dropped support for
>>> D1, it is D2 only. I believe Qt suits all your requirements very well.
>>> It's performant - we try to emulate as many C++ types using D structs
>>> as possible, for drawing purposes. So types like QPoint - are D structs
>>> and for drawing lines you can pass D array directly. No perfromance
>>> hit. But of course we cannot avoid all of them, it is still a binding.
>>> Regarding the license, Qt itself is LGPLed, QtD is boost. you don't
>>> have to put any attribution. About stability of APIs - Qt4 is stable
>>> within the major version. At the moment we are working on signals/slots
>>> implementation. It is mostly complete, but syntax may change. It will
>>> hopefully change once and stay forever.
>>>
>>> I would say that QtD is in the state close to that of D2, almost there,
>>> but not quite ready yet. But we intend to release the next version,
>>> which will be ready to use earlier than D2 anyway, I would say within a
>>> month.
>>
>> I salute the decision of going with D2, as well as that of using the
>> Boost license. If there is anything in the language that prevents you
>> from getting things done, please let us know. The availability of QtD
>> concurrently with that of D2 will hopefully push both forward.
>
> I don't get why Boost license should be used. It's just confusing to have
> yet another free for all license as it basically promises the same things
> as the 2-clause BSD or MIT license. The only difference I see is that the
> author of a Boost licensed software publicly admits that he is a Boost
> fanboy and thinks the license somehow got better after his personal
> deities rewrote it from scratch with NIH mentality.

Speaking purely (and proudly) as a non-lawyer: For being only three 
paragraphs long, the Boost license is amazingly obtuse. The first two 
paragraphs are made up of one full-paragraph-sized sentence each, and in a 
style that's the written-word equivilent of constipation (kinda like how my 
dad explains things: keeps talking and yet somehow never gets to the ^&**& 
point.) Then the third paragraph, of course, is every laywer's big stiffy: 
the ALL CAPS paragraph.